Invest in the Future of NFV and Your Career at OPNFV Euphrates Plugfest, Dec 4-8

From December 4th through the 8th, Intel will host the OPNFV Euphrates Plugfest at its Jones Farm campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. We are excited to support the OPNFV developer community in this fourth Plugfest, see familiar faces and welcome new members to the community. Intel has been involved with the OPNFV since its inception, and we continue to support its mission to create a standard NFV reference architecture, developed through system level integration, deployment and testing across open source ecosystems.

During the Euphrates Plugfest, community members including project technical leads (PTLs), and software developers will tackle the technical challenges of putting Euphrates release into operation. Attendees will improve the OPNFV platform through rigorous compatibility testing across multiple hardware and software configurations, including the latest platforms based on Intel architecture built on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable family of processors. Developers and vendors can try new scenarios, test cases, installers, tools and combinations of components.

New areas of focus for this Plugfest include collaboration with ETSI on its upcoming PlugTest test cases; ONAP integration, Kubernetes and container integration, and multi-access Edge. You can learn more about the previous Plugfest by reading the Danube Plugfest report.

We also have plans for key project teams to meet face-to-face. Doctor, Clover (Cloud Native NFV), Yardstick, Bottlenecks, Daisy, SNAPS-OO and other teams will meet for in-depth discussions, problem-solving, and planning for the upcoming Fraser release.

Due to overwhelming demand from previous Plugfests, we will also host several hacking sessions.

While the agenda is still under development, you can stay up to date on the latest schedule by visiting the Plugfest collaboration wiki page.

The Intel Network Builders ecosystem is comprised of independent software vendors (ISVs), operating system vendors (OSVs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs), system integrators, communication service providers and other industry leaders focused on creating reference architectures and new use cases to accelerate the adoption and deployment of NFV and SDN.

The Intel Network Builders community has tested new concepts and contributed many innovations to open source communities, including OPNFV. One recent example is the Network Services Benchmarking (NSB) project launched over a year ago to develop a common testing framework for Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) and Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) characterization. The goal of NSB is to accelerate the VNF onboarding process, a key requirement as we prepare the infrastructure for 5G.

This benchmarking program has led to significant contributions to the Yardstick, Barometer and SampleVNF sub-projects in support of the latest Euphrates release. You can read more about NSB in a recent blog by John Healy, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Datacenter Network Solutions Group.

I encourage you to join us in Hillsboro December 4-8. Test the Euphrates release, expand your industry network, and build on your NFV skills. Space is limited and spots are filling up – so register today. We look forward to seeing you there!